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Monday, January 26, 2004		IT Click

Sony Corp unveils its Aiwa brand portable MP3 music player UZ-PS128 in Tokyo. The player is a combination of a headphone and a digital recording device embedded with 128 MB of flash memory. The player goes on sale February 1 for $ 120.

Japan’s largest toymaker, Bandai Co Ltd., demonstrates how the company’s new talking toy robot utters when it is flipped over during an unveiling in Tokyo. “Doraemon, the Robot” can utter 750 phrases on cue from sensors located on 10 different parts of its body. The robot goes on sale in late March for $ 186.

An Indian man talks on a mobile phone as he carries his belongings over his shoulders near a hoarding promoting mobile telephones in New Delhi. Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd, a GSM mobile service firm, said it could spend an extra $ 50 million on networks in the year to March to meet strong demand.

South Korean children play a computer game in Seoul. In the online computer game Lineage, 12-year-old South Korean Lim is a hero, earning fame and fortune in a fantasy world where a flashing blade and well-timed spell can keep him out of trouble.